Putin calls for using current situation to offer conditions to develop production

MOSCOW, December 18. /TASS/. The current crisis, related to the slump in oil prices will make it possible to use the situation to offer conditions to develop production businesses and to diversify the economy.

“We should use this situation to offer additions conditions for production businesses and for diversification of the economy,” President Vladimir Putin said. Formerly, for businesses it “was more profitable to invest in the energy,” not in any other sectors, he said.